Thank you.

[Granjow]

@lydell and @akhodakivskiy – today, I had to switch to Vimium due to Firefox 57 (and other great extensions like Tab Groups and Beyond Australis got lost without replacement …).

Thanks for your work on this great extension. It really changed browsing from meh to fun. You are awesome.

[lydell]

Thank you! It really means a lot to hear things like this! :)

[mitermayer]

@lydell @akhodakivskiy interested if you guys have a rough idea on what would be required to allow support for firefox 57+.

I may be willing to contribute to it

[lydell]

@mitermayer See #860. I think it is a better idea to contribute to Saka Key, though. Both projects are MIT licensed, so you can easily copy code from VimFx.

[sudoyang]

This is the best!. Thanks so much!

[ahstro]

Just wanted to add my thanks for VimFX. It was the first keyboard browsing plugin that worked exactly as I wanted it to. 🙏

[ghost]

After years of dealing with constantly broken pentadactyl/vimperator situations, I switched over to this fantastic extension. It was such a refreshing extension that balanced features and performance. I'm glad to have used it and am sad to see it go. Thanks so much, @lydell.

[levinit]

vimfx is practical.👍

[Nebucatnetzer]

I agree with all that was said before, VimFX was a really great addon and the first that really worked for me.

[jflorian]

Just want to chime in here as another very satisfied user that had started with pentadactyl then vimperator then a whole slew of others, including vimium before landing here -- it's always the last place you look! This was the first one that I thought was done right all the way through. Like a good friend passing, I wish I'd known it sooner.

I'd like to also mention that new Vim-like extensions are still popping up. I just found vim-vixen but haven't had much time to evaluate it yet. Seems very lean and clean. Might be worth mentioning on the README here.

[Nebucatnetzer]

vim-vixen is quite nice but has the problem that you currently can't black list URLs. Beside that it's IMO the most promising one.

[jflorian]

@Nebucatnetzer , blacklist? You mean like a way to turn off the extension for some sites? Guess I've never used that feature on any of these, despite being a power user. Guess it's just the sites I visit have never necessitated such a need. If anything, I get upset when the key bindings aren't there as I'd expect, such as when looking at the Feedbro main page, which is more like a FF preferences page than a real web site. Like what /proc is to a real filesystem. Don't know what the FF parlance for that is. Virtual page?

[bae22]

Just wanted to add my thanks to @lydell and @akhodakivskiy for all your work on VimFX. Can't imagine using Firefox without it, and sad to see it go.

[Nebucatnetzer]

@jflorian exactly yes. Sites like Google Docs for example have their own keybindings which then gets a bit hairy if they trigger before the vim plugins.

[girst]

From me too a big thank you to all the contributors and developers, especially @lydell and @akhodakivskiy of course! No other vim-type extension has put this much thought in the f -link-labels -- the most important elements are actually the easiest combination of letters.

Just a FYI: The addon still works in Firefox Developer Edition 57 when you set extensions.legacy.enabled to true. (Same for Nightly 58, so this might be a viable path for the near future)

[Turysaz]

I also just wanted to say thank you. My first vim-style-browsing experience was with Luakit, which has built-in vim-like keybindings. The UX of Luakit was good, but it often just did not feel polished. When I then stumbled upon VimFx, it was like a revelation to me. VimFx has absolutely made my life a bit better. :-) Thanks to all contributors for this great piece of software!

[john-soda]

Was the best add-on ever! Tanks very much! Can somebody could give me an advise, which one of these three add-ons is the closest to vim FX?

• Saka key
• Vimium-FF
• Vim Vixen Thanks!

[ahstro]

@john-soda I don't know about "closest", but Vimium-FF has served my particular usage well. It does suffer from being a content script, so the page has to be loaded before it can be used, but I assume the others do as well (I don't remember that aspect of them). Saka and Vixen seemed to offer a few more "power user" features though.

[sitedyno]

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this extension. I found it late so have only been using it 6-8 months, but it's made a huge difference in my FF experience. Thanks so much!

[sbseltzer]

Thank you for this project. Sounds like it's dying now, but the past year of using it has been a blast. Much love to the maintainer and contributors. :)

[geniousli]

Thanks your great work, i have a pleasure time with your production

[anthony-geoghegan]

I've just upgraded to Firefox 57 and while I love the speed, my interaction with the browser UI feels crippled without VimFx (and ItsAllText). I was going to open a Thank you issue but it’s heartening to see that this one has been open since September.

Many thanks to @lydell @akhodakivskiy for providing such an elegant browser extension that has successfully avoided bloat and feature-creep to focus on providing a quality keyboard-based UI.

[spacepluk]

Another big thank you here, VimFX will be sorely missed!

[sbseltzer]

I've been evaluating alternatives and so far the biggest problem I have is the inability to select Firefox menu items and navigate the settings/addons pages. Granted VimFX was slightly buggy with this, but it did a good enough job for me. Does anyone know if this is impossible to implement using the new API, or is contributing the feature to other addons possible?

[lydell]

select Firefox menu items

Not sure what you mean here?

navigate the settings/addons pages

WebExtensions are not allowed to do that.

VimFX was slightly buggy with this

Buggy with what? Just curious 😉

[sbseltzer]

Not sure what you mean here?

Whatever the e b command was called. It was nice because several extensions I used didn't have shortcut keys to open their menus, but they did have toolbar icons which could activate/focus their interface when clicked. Being able to "click" them via VimFX was really nice.

Buggy with what? Just curious 😉

In that when I opened menu popups from "clicking" toolbar icons as described above, like the Firefox main menu, VimFX would not be available and the menu wouldn't focus. This meant I needed to use my mouse to click or focus on anything in it. This was an occasional pain that I learned to live with. I imagine this was a limitation of the extension API for security reasons, so I suppose "bug" was a misleading word.

A shame that I'll never be able to navigate options menus with keyboard alone. This is going to be a major annoyance for me going forward.

Still, this was a great addon. Hoping the new WebExtensions eventually get extended to support some of these features again.

[lydell]

I miss the eb command too (and, yes, the results did vary when it comes to what clickable things were found and how well they were activated). It is also one of the things that WebExtensions can't do.

[girst]

TIL about eb. I'll add my reminder that VimFX still works on Firefox Developer Editon 58.

@lydell - maybe add that to the README?

[lydell]

@girst You mean the extensions.legacy.enabled pref, that only works in Developer Edition and Nightly? (For how long?) Not sure that's something we should promote. Dedicated users will find it anyway.

[girst]

~~yep, that's it. People are still looking for ways to work around the legacy addon deprecation. for how long? No guarantees, but I'll guess that most of the APIs VimFX uses will stay around for quite some time (and for me, every day I can use VimFX longer counts).~~

~~well, updated from 58b1 to b4 today, and it finally broke. I'll miss this addon :'(~~ works on ff-dev 58b8 again! yay!

[pasau]

-rip- best addon in the history of addons